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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: VWE on November 19, 2004, 01:13:53 PM
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I still remember many weird terms from my time in the US Navy, I'll share a few and would like to hear some more from others.
Gig line: Making sure the edge of your shirt, belt buckle and zipper flap were in one straight line from top to bottom.
Geedunk: Junk food or candy.
Gud diving: Retreiving dropped personal items from a loaded toilet.
Scupper puppy: Poop in the bilge.
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LMAO
Gud Diving....
Scupper puppy
ROFLMAO
learned "gig line" in pauly shore's movie "in the army now"
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Great!
In the Airforce we used to send the new airmen after some of these items.
1. A bucket of prop wash. (While assigned to the wash rack)
2. A yard of flightline. (Whlie assigned to a tow crew)
3. An Aluminum magnet. (While working in the LOX plant)
4. A skyhook. (While working on Aircraft)
Some times they would come back in tears! Sometimes I even felt bad, but not for long!
;)
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not military, but working as QC at a large photo lab, we once told a guy we were running out of matte (satin) photo paper,
sent him to the basement looking for de-glossifier spray. (building had no basement). he came back 2 hours later with red eyes, and quit.
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i have known many , but i think the best is a metric crescent wrench.
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Flatnoodles for the ops folks.
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It is allmost impossible to replace some muffler bearings without using a metric crecent wrench.
lazs
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Originally posted by lazs2
It is allmost impossible to replace some muffler bearings without using a metric crecent wrench.
lazs
And you need the left handed metric crescent wrench for the carbuerator belts.
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Originally posted by loser
And you need the left handed metric crescent wrench for the carbuerator belts.
if it's time to change the carbeurator belts, then the blinker fluid is way over due.
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Sledgehammer qualification:
Draw a circle on the ground, instruct the FNG (Forking New Guy) that he should try, while blindfolded, to hit inside the circle as many times as he can in one minute. While blindfolding the FNG , remove his hat. Now that he can't see, place his hat inside the target circle, start the timer, and verbally guide his swings onto the target (and his hat). Try to stifle your laughter as you watch him pound his own cover.
Replacement hat optional depending on if the FNG is a salamander or not. :)
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Army stuff:
pogie bait=junk food you take to the field so you don't have to eat MREs 3x a day.
pogue=REMF
**** cap=old dress uniform hat
koalafying=hanging upside down on a tree trunk (great on FNGs)
Chinese jump boot=those "walking cast" things
There's tons more, but thats what comes to mind right now.....I'll post more when they pop in my head.
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Few I have picked up over the past few years in the military program Im in. Got plenty more where that came from. Tried to make it alphabetical,but kept remembering others halfway through. Enjoy.
Scuttlebutt-Drinking fountian/Slang for gossip
Head- Bathroom
Deck-Floor
Passageway-Hall
Chow-meal time/food
Chow line-food line
Muster-formation for colors/orders/roll call
Rack-bed
Mess hall-place for chow, cafeteria
Aft-back end of navel vessel
Forward-front end of navel vessel
Starboard-right side
Port-left side
Abaft-to the rear of
Adrift-Scattered about;not in proper storage
All hands-All those aboard ship or station
As you were-Command,meaning resume former activity.
Beach-slang for shore
Below-to go below decks
Boondockers-U.S.M.C sland for feild boots
Bulkhead-wall
Comshaw-To obtain supplies by any means possible
Feild Day-cleaning day
Galley- kitchen
GI can-trash can
Hit the deck-Get up "Rsie and Shine" or get your face on the ground and hope for the best.
Hit the sack-go to bed
Joe Pot- coffee pot
Ladder-stairs
Line-rope
Mae West-Pnuematic life jacket
Overhead-ceiling
Red Lead- slang for catsup
Quarter deck-Ceremonial place on main deck.
Secure-to make fast
Swab-mop
Stores-supplies
:aok :aok
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Used to send new privates "Grid Squares" for the Land Nav Course and "Risor Grease" for the parachutes.
:D
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SNAFU, which has been the name of 2 of our family boats, and aptly so.
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Forgot the most important term. F.U.B.A.R...(no not the "pilot" in here)
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Charlie Foxtrot = Cluster ....
Karaya
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Echo Charlie Foxtrot-extrem cluster --
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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Few I have picked up over the past few years in the military program Im in. Got plenty more where that came from. Tried to make it alphabetical,but kept remembering others halfway through. Enjoy.
Scuttlebutt-Drinking fountian/Slang for gossip
Head- Bathroom
Deck-Floor
Passageway-Hall
Chow-meal time/food
Chow line-food line
Muster-formation for colors/orders/roll call
Rack-bed
Mess hall-place for chow, cafeteria
Aft-back end of navel vessel
Forward-front end of navel vessel
Starboard-right side
Port-left side
Abaft-to the rear of
Adrift-Scattered about;not in proper storage
All hands-All those aboard ship or station
As you were-Command,meaning resume former activity.
Beach-slang for shore
Below-to go below decks
Boondockers-U.S.M.C sland for feild boots
Bulkhead-wall
Comshaw-To obtain supplies by any means possible
Feild Day-cleaning day
Galley- kitchen
GI can-trash can
Hit the deck-Get up "Rsie and Shine" or get your face on the ground and hope for the best.
Hit the sack-go to bed
Joe Pot- coffee pot
Ladder-stairs
Line-rope
Mae West-Pnuematic life jacket
Overhead-ceiling
Red Lead- slang for catsup
Quarter deck-Ceremonial place on main deck.
Secure-to make fast
Swab-mop
Stores-supplies
:aok :aok
Dang Blue....I remember all those.
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Just some that I remember from the Marines
Bravo foxtrot = Buddy F**ker, or someone that screws you over
Drop a dime = kinda like ratting someone out...also dropping news about someone also Dimedropper
Chit = A peice of paper representing something IE medical chit, light duty chit, money chit
BZO = (battlesight zero) the elevation and windage required to engage a point target from 0 - 300 meters under Ideal weather conditions while providing grazing fire from 0 - 300 meters (I can't beleive I still remember that word for word)
Overhead = ceiling
Deck = floor
Portholes = somone who wears glasses
WM = Woman Marine....OR....walking mattress, waist of money, wookie monster
Bag nasty = A to go bag lunch you get at the chow hall
Yard Bird = the chicken that comes in a bag nasty
Slick 50 = The sunscreen you get issued in boot camp....also named for alternate uses of a more personal/private nature
Happy sock = See slick 50
those are just the ones I remember
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when i was in we called women marines "split tails", but never to their face, they would kick the crap out of you.
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A few I recalled.
TARFU = Things are really fouled up
Blivet = 10 lbs of feces stuffed in a 5 lb bag
Send the fng out for;
A road wheel pressure guage. (road wheel solid rubber on a metal solid rim.)
Adjust the throzzle rod after lubing the muffler bearing.
Get the tension guage for the track.
Get the torque wrench for the track tensioning nut.
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A time honored tradition is sending new Fleet Sailors on a hunt for some Relative Bearing Grease. :)
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I like that one, Wulfie, I will get my daughters the next time we are aboard.
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xm-177e2
rpg7
car15
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Some Army terms:
Squared Away = Things are in order
Good to Go = Self explanatory
Roger = The answer to anything
Hooah = The answer to anything
Ate up = all fouled up
12 up and 4 down = 8 up
We're sailing a Chickenwire canoe up the ****z River with Swiss cheese paddles = things are not going well
Big serving of Chicken noodle on Rye = See above
ODF = Out Dar Flappin = See above
Smaj = Sergeant Major
Top = First Sergeant
Platoon Daddy = Platoon Sergeant
Squad Leader = God
Team Leader = Not God, but has a direct line to God
PL = Patrol Leader = Lieutenant when he is "squared away"
MFIC = Mother F--ker In Charge
Bullet Launcher = Rifle
Pig = M240B Machinegun
Banger = Flashbang Grenade
Pop gun = Pistol
Universal Key = Shotgun (used to open doors)
Door Knocker = Exterior/Interior Breaching Charge
Orchestrated Ballet of Death = Trained Infantry Squad in the attack
Mix metal and meat = your job in the infantry
Kill people and break things = your job in the infantry
Tool = term for a private
Hotrod = term for a private as in "Come here Hotrod, Just what in the H--l do you think your doing??"
SLUG = Student in an Army School - acronym for "Student Leader Under Guidance"
Some things to send privates looking for:
Blank Adapter for a 203.
Blank Adapter for an M9
A salamander E7 = comes from the radio salamander 77-Best when you send the private to a Sergeant First Class (E-7). Go find Sergeant Dufflebag and tell you need to get a salamander E7!!
Frequency Grease
Canopy Lights = for jumpin at night
Keys to the Drop Zone
Box of Grid Square
Tell the new LT who is lost to check the map. Then you shake a bush and tell him to look for movement. Never had one not look for a second. At night shine a red light straight up and tell him to look for the red dot.
or show him:
Automatic Azimuth = Pushing the sighting glass down on the Lensatic Compass locks the needle in place. You never drift off azimuth that way! :eek:
Crumpp
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Soup sandwich, forgot about that one :)
Gun bunnies=artillery dudes.
11 Bang-bang=grunts
Spoon=cook
Cook whites=really faded BDUs
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You need a special tool to check the air pressure in a car's manifold. And blinker fluid.
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Not military terminology, but my brother was in the Navy and he related his experience on how to stand when just standing around. The correct and military way to do that is with the pinky finger and next finger in the back pants pocket with the other two fingers and thumb exposed and ready for action. He said that way, it looks like you're relaxed and yet ready to pop a quick punch out if needed.:D
Now I don't know if he ever put that to practice, but it sounded like that was the correct at ease stance and within military protocol.
I think it bothered him seeing how I and my age group would stand around with our hands in front pockets, which looks sloppy and unprepared.
Les
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Go fasters.
Always loved that one.
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Originally posted by Lizking
I like that one, Wulfie, I will get my daughters the next time we are aboard.
Fd-Ski and some others could give you a 'book full' to use. :) My time on the Real Ships doing Fleet Sailor Stuff is very limited.
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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
Go fasters.
Always loved that one.
I forgot about those.
Also,
boot = new troops....aka Green
Moonbeam = Boot issue flashlight.
Sticks = crutches
POA = position of attention
inc stick = Pen
D*ck beaters d*ck skinners, or paws = hands
Soup coolers, c*ck holsters, or sucks = mouths
Book o knowledg = basic military hand book
Green monster = guidbook for Marines
crump my buddy who was in an LAV unit used to send his boots out to other units asking to borrow their BFE (blank adapter) for their 20mm main guns. The other one they used is a "9mm self oscilating wrench for the left hand"
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My personal favorite from the Academy was the term "Smack", which is what we called the freshmen. Stood for Soldier Minus Ability, Coordination, and Knowledge.
Along the same lines, though I'm not sure if it's used much anymore, is Jeep (Junior Enlisted Experimental Personnel).
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As a marine recruit who wore glasses, I used to wear BCG's.
Birth Control Glasses - Glasses so smurfy you would never get laid wearing them.
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We called em RPGs=Rape Prevention Glasses
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Dildo = practise torpedo that is used in the big wet ....over and over again
several variants of DILDO depending on whether it hits the sweet spot or not or if its lost. ;)
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Greenie Weenie- Green scrub pad
Camel Snot- Yellow rubber like glue
Monkey Cum- Status board cleaner/polish
Monkey SH*t- stuff used to seal cableways that penetrate the bulkhead or deck
Caddillac- Mop Bucket
GP- General purpose cleaner
Scuttlebut- Water Fountain
More Navy Humor.
Tell someone that there is Saltwater in the Firemain (everybody knows that firefightin water is seawater)..then instruct them to go to CCS (central control) and request permission to blow the MPA (Main Propulsion assistant, usually and ensign or LTjg)
Or tell someone to go get "sound powered" phone batteries.
Or go to the HT shop and get an HT punch (HT=Hull Technician rating)
Or my favoreite wild goose chase.
Tell someone to go get the Gas Card to pay for the fuel during and Underway replinishment.
thesres also "cranking down the mast" when passing under bridges
and having some poor guy stand the "Mail Bouy" watch.
Thank goodness I never fell for any of them.
The only thing that ever happened to me was making the mistake of entering another Department's Berthing Compartment to use the head since it was closer to CIC than my own. I ended up in a laundry bag hanging upside down from the overhead, after being ruffed up quite a bit. Found out that there were "berthing wars" going on at the time. Of course you'd get in alot of trouble for hazing if that was done today.
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Posted by Leslie,
I think it bothered him seeing how I and my age group would stand around with our hands in front pockets, which looks sloppy and unprepared."
USed to be you couldn't stand with your hands in front pockets while in working uniform (Dungarees) Since the front pockets looked like two back pockets sewn on the wrong side of the pants.